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THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRxu 22, 1922, BOXERS WOULD EASILY OUTCLASS WRESTLERS IN MIXED BOUTS CLASH BETWEEN TWEEN DEMPSEY A BOXER-WRESTLER es - . - By Robert Edgren MTA Secs ananade, AND STRANGLER ED LEWIS eS re ean WOULD Bt JOKE CONTEST Advantage ‘Has Always Been|'* boxing. Wrestling ruins a boxer by making him too slow to box. ‘There With Boxers in Matches With] isn't a caso on record of any man who Wrestlers and Jiu Jitsu Artists] 728, ¢, tre class boxer ae enon class wrestler at the same time. Tom —How McCoy Defeated Sa-| Sharkey ost his fighting specd when he tried to become a wrestler, Gun- vate Champion in France. ner Moir, once a wrestler, became boxing champion of England. But he bert Edgren was muah too slow to be a great By Rol E fighter. Tommy Buras, at 163 pounds, OR a couple of months sporting easily knocked him out. Bombardier circles all over the country have} Wells, fast and a flashy boxer, been discussing the old question] knocked Moir out too. Moir tried to LONDON, April 22.—A series of in- ternational track meets between Eng- lish and American universities has | been arranged, according to John T. a McGovern, who came with the Uni- 4 versity of Pennsylvania runners for thelr meeting with Oxford and Cam- bridge as offiical observer, McGovern . and ‘the Pennsylvania team will sail Yor the United States to-morrow. 4 Under the pian, Yale and Harvard 4 teams will meet Oxford and Cambridge In London in the summer of 1923, while Oxford and Cambridge will visit Prince- ton and Cornell. then Yale and Har- vard, and perhaps other American schools, in Joint meets in dBase: hhc ss ; Yale Freshmen Win. ¥ NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 22.—The Yale Freshman Tennis Team defeated the Pennsylvania Freshmen yesterday, ¢ matches to 2 \T WRESTLER Wace , < OEBER, ON TOR oF ‘TA Boxer - WRESTLER 5 THe HEAD, aND KNocKED ‘bout how a boxer and a wrestler| induce bees ooaiartadtprae Se MATCH WouLD Look Lie + - THe ZMIM our. , Nites seer Cena ts ‘ements | come a boxer. Hack thought well o} sed To Bess Voun would come out If matched to “Aght" |14 idea and trained for mofths but . A che one Soe == BUT He UseD A each other with their opposing meth-| never entered the boxing ring In a Vy PU Nkcee BAW war, ods, Strangler Lewis, the wrestling| contest. He was remarkably fast us champion, has obtained much needed| a wrestler but confided to me that he advertising by ‘challenging’ Jack| found himself lacking in punching speed. Dempsey, boxing champion. The old} “me tugging, straining effort of wrestling game has been rather slow| wrestling on the mat seems to unfit ef late and needs newspaper space} them for taking such blows as boxers to keep it going. Dempsey, having| strike. Years ago a huge fellow known already achieved #0 much knockout} %* Yank Kenny, who had become a falrly good wrestler, tried to box. He reputation that he is without work in| was a bigger man than Jeffries and his specialty, has paid little atten-| looked like a world beater. But he ftion to Lewis, whose offers of stakes} couldn't take a crack on the chin, In or side bets have increased as the| 1901 he wound up his fighting career Hkelthood of their acceptance dwin-|in the Klondike, Frank Slavin, an les. old-time boxer who had retired from Now let us have the real truth| the ring and was then forty-one years t a boxer-wrestier contest. old, knocked Yank out in three rounds. In the first place, such a contest is Frank Gotch, world's champion impossible. wrestler and a great man on the mat, There's no more sense in it than in| thought he'd go after the boxing a championship “‘battle’’ between a| championship after Jeffries retired. He chess player and a poker player, each | trained a long time and made his stirt using his own Implements and. tech [in Alaska, and old Slavin knocked nique, one with a chess board and] Gotch for a goal, Gotch couldn't take chess men and chess moves, and the}u punch on the chin, although he Geowses j HACKENSCHMIDT TRANED TO CHALLENGE JEPrRiEs, peti lon ™ edie AT AS A Boner, HE Was & Goop WEIGHT LrreR. AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING. yer and Club, | AB. 1. PO. Hellmann, Detroft .......56 3 20 580 Player and Club. ler, Brooklyn . * Bourveau, Brooklyn. Cincinnati other with a deck of cards and a| could stand the roughing of his own FRA GST THE Nae Bene 17 Brooklyn stack of chips. game for hours at a stretch. Gotch eee 2 Seer ORGS UCi= ; + GREAT Wrestiee , ; emgo ‘A boxer does his work while on his] and Doe Roller, another wrestler with REACHING FOR & HOLD oN @ FAT, és TRIED Boxinéa Tice — | Stock, St, Louis... . A wrestler isn’t fairly in ac-| ambition to become a boxer, met in HARD HITTING Boxer — BT THE Flous oF- Willams, Philadelphia tion until on his hands and knees. the ring. People who saw the con- LEWIS ReacHING FoR. DEMPSEY, STARS SPOILED HIS Heathcote, St In a ‘‘contest’’ between a boxer and] test say it was one of the funniest From. INSTANCE, am. @ wrestler, the wrestler would need| yer seen in a ring. Both men could Ssas aay 2 Pitt Parkinson, Philuaeiphis : Ke subbbbbebeheessess only to lie down on the floor if he] have wrestled all night but after two Un Getta jBto il aie was in trouble, when he'd be in alo, three rounds of boxing both were| ¢ | Horney) Wis Lonle, $m 8 Fain price cen enn nd] ine” serv “aad seaaa’ Yor! * HONeSt Man’ of ‘Black Sox,’ Outlaw Now, ihe fairly safe from a boxer's attack. To] «winging slow, heavy blows that 9 fi get at ney ee ee roe. have tol neither could avoid. Both gave up OFarrelt, chicago ‘ BR 8 Philadelphia up boxing an y the wres- atte: inners, New. Yo 51 7 [36 : See [ea eee Pitchin Semi Pro. at $17,500 as Season |i a) a ere a But if the wrestler went to the} WHAT FITZ DI. TO WRESTLER Hollocher, GCPRED crssesees B HS. 20 , BY floor, according to boxing rules, he IN TRAINING. ae MUM eat a3 would be down and subject to a ten- Bouthin orth von” a 7 3 A quarter of a century ago, Ernest . |clean, honorable idol of the seasons| , puthwo a 7 9 wegond count. tier-boxer con-| Roeber wasa great wrestler. He was a|H@ Wouldn't “Thr “Throw Games” in| or 1920 ana 1921—placed on a pedes | “Dick” Kerr, a |] Savi Idol, | 3 ; H = t be ceete come | Short, thick-set, stocky fellow with no i tal as an fdeal for the professional = | pune, Clnclniatl ena: : test might ‘be just a rough-house |short, thick-set, stocky fevow with no Famous World Series, but) in ir tiiver of the lant Dick te] Literally Forced Off Big Cir- | smirs.'s : Berkines Fplianstene. fight, with no rules, the survivor to He the winner, Such a contest|bUilt for his own game. He trained couldn't be held in this country, ex-| Bob Fitzstmmons for the champlon- cept illegally and in private, like the| Sip fight with Corbett at Carson in old-time prize fights. No boxer or| 1897. Fitz kidded Roeber along, and wrestler with any regard for his|Ernest thought he was beating Fitz reputation would take part in such a/in the training quarters every day. haat. He swelled with ambition to Bee , heavyweight boxing champion and be- VEY AND THE JIU JITSU EX-| 1 to talk about what he could do PERT. to any of the fighters. He planned ‘Now consider what might happen |starting a ring career after the Cor- im a grappler-boxer battle, bett-Fitzsimmons fight. Perhaph It Several years ago when Sam Mce- | was in kindness of heart that Bob in- ‘Vey and Sam Langford were fighting |terfered. Or perhaps it was one of each other return matches down in|his practical jokes. I was in Bob's Australia, Sam McVey was chal-|gymnasium a couple of days before Bancroft Organized Baseball Coldly day |e an outlaw, In the office of the cuit and Blacklisted Because | Hincrot Turned Down Demands of De-}icenesaw Mountain Landis, a bic} He Wouldn't Take Salary| foe c a bie Johnston, Brooklyn served Increase in Salary. black mark is placed against the name Comiskey Offered Him. Grimes, Chicago Veach, Detroit runk, Chieago Jonnnon, chicago... of Richard Kerr, and before he ix Ainemithe Bt. Louie’. eligible to play with the White Sox, Bi porate to whom he was so devoted and|'wice what he was and he asked for > ye tp By Robert Boyd. faithful, he must apply for rein-] 4M Increase. HEN Little Dickie Kerr refused | statement and face the strong arm of| Se here you have little Dickie. The | © W to cast his lot with the mot-| organized baseball's law like a way.|0ame White Sox no more adorns the | jhe se : ley crew that wrecked the|ward son or a fugitive. In baseball|{tont of his uniform. Instead of the | Statz, “Chic 1919 championship team of Kid|Kerr is looked upon very much like| team he was so faithful to, the name| Mar Gleason's White Sox, he became the|a wayward son or a fugitive. In base-]C!ty Hall reads across his little chest. | ign, Brooklyn .... {dol of the nation, Kerr would go on|ball Kerr ts looked upon very much| Once the hero and tdol of the Na- . winning while his infleld and outfield | like the man in civil life who trans- |!" and a man among a motley bund) NATIONAL LEAGUE were crossing him and trying to|gresses the law. of traitors of the National game, h0! picner and Club, Loul dbeveccosavaraaaccnencaceauuneonasa AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHING. Eitcher ang Chup pansies ntenenineta beeen ne PSSSSOSCOOCOOSS BegSRESeseESESzEeszSzes2 seo thence ,soccegoae Y is an outlaw to-day. But there was! snerd Phi Jenged to u mixed match by a white|the big fight, sole spectator of the|throw games. The importance of| And here is Little Dick's story. He |'* i *| Sherdal, Bt : 1006 rh who had studied jiu jitsu several|training that. day, when Boh told| Little Dickie’s winnings was never| wanted more money, for he was one nothing Underhendied about. the way 4 ch : oe Bun.’ New York in Japan and had been awarded| Roeber to come at him and try his} T¢@y¥ appreciated until six men on] of the five best pitchers in the Ban odoin paneer e had 10) pougiag, Ne : : first class honors in that country. best to knock him out. the now illfated “Black” Sox stated| Johnson Circuit and very much un |{ilows to look under, no easy piteh- Under the terms of the contest| Roeber plunged in’ headlong, arms ti e} Pi ot | le . Barnes, New York. this in a confession later. derpaid, Elven some of the twirlers| 2% % the other team could win. He| fuer Row, Y is an t '. Tho! there were to be three bouts, two out |ewinging like a windmill, and Fitz| But Dickte says to-day the deeds of] who were rated far below Kerr in]i. a beck mur Saale ne aning in Martin, ‘Chicsge ef three to decide the winner. Each| slipped around him untouched. After] ¥esterday are soon forgotten, for the! pitching ability were pulling down|:ne baseball headquarters of Chicago, | benohtie, Cineinnat Man was to use any fighting method a minute or so Fitz turned grinning ST _—— Haines, Bt. Lout lm, But little Dickie has a few little| Ring, Philadelpni at his command, hit, kick, gouge. |to me and held up his right hand with . ° babies at home and that is the reason | Morrison, Pittabur rh e lorrigon, ‘eh twist joints—the only condition be-|» motion indicating that he wanted I ight Heavyweight Muddle he will tell you, if you should ask | “ausey. New Ye gh fmg that either could “resign” if|me to watch closely. Aa Roeber ae ger plunged, head down, Fitz lifted his -diu jitsu is a scientifically studied | rent elbow and deliberately hit. Roeb- afd highly developed system com- Meadows, him to-day, why he stepped down arison, Cleared by Harvey Going Abroad from his pedestal of idealist where the | Hubbell, fandom of the Nation placer him fol- SoocE sls e mee er on top of the head with his right —- ane o lowing the exposure of the World ° bining wrestling and other fighting | fst. Roeber fell on his face, knocked 5 and Levinsky fought, the latter had|Serles of 1919 between the White Sox ° eee The Agnes and holes se as cold as if struck with a hammer.JPOints to Records to Show|no championship to lose. and Cincinnati Reds. ® labo! wi ing | Failing to revive him, Fitz took him : . “As everyone remembers, or as can} In Chicago Charles Comiskey, the 3 fethods at which Lewis, for ex-|by the heels and dragged him over to Tunney Is Not Title be discovered by the simple epedient | Old omen cima the club. Kid|$ rae es Ehmke. betrolt ofA ple, is adept. As a fighting art], wrestling mat, where ne let him lle| * Holder. of consulting the records, Levinsky| Gleason is the manager, nominally tiu jitsu is far more effective than | white other sparring partners went on. 2 lost on a foulx to Boyo McCormick in} and that’s all. "Je answers and acts | {j aa ae AM. LEAGUE CLUB BATTING. ing. Dan Hickey, who was next, and lost seven rounds at Portland, Ore. This|to and from the orders of Comiskey. | Mitchell, Brooklyn ....... ¢ , Go. Be. In the first bout the jiu-jitsu expert | 41 eye tooth that day, will remember] Charley Harvey, the fight manager} automatically transferred the title to} Comiskey did not think Kerr was en-! Vance, Brookiyn . got McVey's arm in a twist from] the which he couldn't escape, and he re- signed. Up to this point big “am thought the match was a joke. He ‘was laughing and making no attempt| was or what had happened, and Sght. But now he was mad. rubbed his head with a foolish grin. Coming out for the second bout Me-|" as for Fitz, he broke the first Vey danced around and Waited for an| knuckle of his right hand with that opening. Ag the jiu-jitsu man reached| punch, and fought Corbett with a for a grip Sam whipped a right hand|proken hand two days later, But he over to his chin and knocked him| concealed the injury so well that no down. Before he could move Sam]one knew it until after the fight circumstance, Roeber didn't move for about five minutes, at the end of which time he sat up, stared around as if he didn't know where he who 1s piloting the fistic fortunes of|McCormick. Lewis knocked McCor-| titled to the $17,500 he asked under %; mick gut in fourteen rounds n Royal|the terms of his new contract and Ted (Kid) Lewis, light-heavywelght) ainert Hall, London, last November, |Gleason thought otherwise Watson,’ Boston, champion of America, 1s leaving for} which gave Ted a clear title to the] Gleason's thinking did not do any] isey, Gincinnatl Europe aboard the Mauritania next} championship of America, good. Tuesday. He is bound for London,| “And as for Tunney, he did not] The Kid asked Dick to visit the hres May 11 at the Olympia, the| meet Levinsky until the latter hed| training camp down in the south this YALE ADDS M. |. T. Madison Square Garden of the Brit-| been defeated by McCormick. How he] Spring and see if he could not come 269 7 , ish Capitol, Lewis is scheduled to{C@M honestly tay clalm to the cham-|to terms as the White Sox club to- ik TO GOLF SCHEDULE meet Georges Carpentier, lght-| Plonship is more than I can figure out. | 48¥ lacks quite a little major league | chi “ F : ,EW HAVEN, Conn., April 22,—The heavyweight champion of Europe, for} “All close followers of ring events} class and it is in need of pitching San aun Yalo golf team echedule, announced to- Eres ret ti seserssez BEEaBERES © NAT'L LEAGUE CLUB BATTING. Dick sat in the hotel lobby tf d ‘| know the situation already, but I con-| strength, Tan i day, shows the addition of one new op- Jumped on him, grabbed both his ears} jitz swung many a wild right at tA Ia pea Car-| Sidered it my duty to issue this state- | 4nd talked at length with Gleason and Cincinnati” pong, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- and banged his head on the floor. That| Corbett that 17th of March that he] pentier 1s attracting a great deal of] ™ent in order to clear the point up|! the conclusion of their conversation DYCKMAN ST. FERRY ended the match. The jiu-jitsu ex-| never intended to land, and knocked| international interest. Lewis is not aj oF the general public, Gleason could offer him nothing ex- | WOMEN SWIMMERS IN e Te Interstate Park, FARE pert was so completely knocked out] Corbett out with his left hand, stranger to London fight fans. He| “As for Lewis, he knows that he 1s) cept that he would pay hien some BIG MEET HERE TO-NIGHT | (ahd DasiSecsan’ be was unable to come back forlman SKILLED IN USE OF FISTS| has fought there many times and ts the legitimate belier bal the title, and atin le he ae tal ota Fis pai Q . : a The Va jor third bout, and he was so thor- ¥ ’ s count: f o Ing that is occupying his| + Dick dik , Mo enciitea that "bo dian't ask HARD TO BEAT. See Parola ete Be oe brent mind at present is his conditioning for | Want to leave the big leagues where it] Two national aquatic champtonshtps ALLOUTLOOR SPORTS for a return match, although he did| Wrestling and fiu jitsu are great] o¢ Great Britain's titles, namely, the|the battle of his career, the fight with|'* such @ favorite as his paying bis} for women swimmers will, be bell by Toylvanta at Apawami .N. Best Route for Autos to N, J. alibt a little. He said he didn’t ex-| stuff on the floor, but not so good] welterweight, middleweight and light-|Georges Carpentier. He is working|0Wn fare down South to try to agree | the Mow Kon ‘omen’ 13; Princeton at Garden City, May 2! 0. $1 West) Dartmouth at Bridgeport, Conn., May ———~ pool of the ¥, W. H. AyD pect Sam to use anything as crude as} When both men are moving around on 110th Street, to-night, the 100-yard heavyweight. As for Carpentier, well,|hard and he realizes that much de. | 0M terms will attest an ear-hold for a finisher, and anyway| their feet. I remember one night| he always has his Frenchmen to relp|Pends on the outsome of his tattic| Just Jast week the news flasned) wwin for genlors and the plunge for] *%) M. I. T. at Boson, May 26: Harvard) | aupson fom batt MT LANES, he had just recovered from an attack] years ago in San Francisco whenfupon for support with the Frenchman,’* across the country that Dickie had} synices Gacaan Gite, Tune of to July t * ang By he West ‘aac ovr a of malaria. there was a discussion going on about] But to get back to Charley Harvey.| The bout between Lewis and Car- niches for 4 mi-professionel team |” In the former will start Miss 2 ao Reith ie Di aes at ra hal to, aii what a poor chance a boxer would For some time now (iene Tunney, |pentler is being promoted by Major J.|0" the outs) neago, was Ket- | Bletbtrey of the Ambassador 8. GOOD, STRONG BOXER WOULD] have with a jiu jitsu expert. A rough the local fighter of Greenwich Village, |Arnold Wilson, a well known sports-| tne the $17 o asked for DUt had) Algate. <A, wenldie record hiss ro “aa COMPA! a HAVE LITTLE TROUBLE KNOCK: |and tough welterweight from South|and his manager Doc Bagley, have/man and now the chief fistic pro-|*utomaticalls — ked himself out ofthe MMjnaes, hietet ey York Women's] PITTSBURGH, April 32—John ¥. wane Re Soon = ING OUT WRESTLER, of the Slot thought he'd try it out.|been spreading the report throughout|moter in Great Britain. ‘The Olympia] 0Twanlaed Day il. All the fine WhO) SIN, “Migs Gertrude. Kahrs of the|Calhoun of the Youghlogheny Country RG NJ BOAT Taking Dempsey us a boxer type—| That evening he created a sensation|the breadth and length of this coun-|Is one of the largest arenas in Europe er pag err + ibliga sede a a in {| Bathing Club of Spring | N. J.,|[Club to-day celebrated the beginning of HEANSBE 5 fie tever ike Deritacy wont ype, | by walking into a Japanese restaurant] try, modestly proclaiming that Gene|with @ seating capacity almost twico|#0t: above all the players, they least} ang the Misses Frances Clark his forty-wecond year as a trapshooter LEAVES BATTERY and picking a quarrel with eight Jap-| was the light-heavywelght champion|as great as that of Madison Square | expected It from little Dickie. Many of | ritzabeth Hecker of the Philadelphia]by winning the open tournament of the $0 AM. 620 PM: Bots, 8.20 A trouble knocking out a wrestler, of America. Garden here. the players in a fanning bee that af- | Turngemetnde Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ y b.30 oe ‘Buns. eck footwork, a keen eye for an|*"e5® decorating the floor with them ve: ve The] Carpentier ts al fond ing {ternoon doubted he was getting $17,-] Mina Bleibtrey dig not send in hor] League at the Herron Hill Gua Club - - peey carries in either hand would} ‘11, "ive often wondered how the|ment on the subject: Frank Moran prepared for hi: fight|not able to pay such an enormous | tiie DME the Ni ¥. W. S. A. mtetwolod |tossed by the strong wind. He defeated —y settle @ match in o ditty, boxer got away with it—but he did.| ‘‘Beforo leaving for London, theré| with Beckett. He is a 8 to 1 favorite | salary. aS ae a fast field, including James W. Napter, || ©! ches ane Wrestlers may look fast when op-) ;Jare a few things that I would like tol|over Lewis in ‘the betting, but the high average champion of the Bat je awe ny pose@ to wrestlers but compared to boxers they are slow as a truck be- @ racing car. Wrestling makes slow Wrestling is an exercise which .... muscles are submitted long strains that take away aff of snappy, sudden action that is used Must have been the suddenness of thy affair, for otherwise the usnusee would surely have been killed. Still, although not commendable, the ex- Hike the smok! you fl na do clear up, I feel that the public is en-| Englishmen are taking the short end. (COLLEGE BASEBALL RESULTS a tetetioesoaamueettat Tor aitthe'h 4s }and: Harry G. Gillespie, runner-up ti ROVAL Fasano ETS titled to know the truth about the| They figure that George's fight with Suing Ne ately Meee deantitul text jest y ames? ROVAL ight heavyweight champlonship of|Jack Dempsey last July has consid- | N. Haven (B. LL) 6 Yale... Ing through those pretty red Maraes Maan Wen See ploit showed that skilled use of the|America, Tunney has been claiming} erably slowed the Frenchman up, | Boston College,..16 Villanove ..... Horace Mann High School began its HELP WANTED—MALE. fists 1s hard to beat as a fighting|the title on the strength of his victory! hasing thetr Judgment on the form he | Mass. Aggies... baseball seanyn on the home diamond | yapT—-EPNRER “Fel method. over Battling Levinsky. The truth of showed in his recent fight with §? The first one il) pRB xt Monday Uyesterday with a victory over Trinity “good workm: (Copyright 1922 by Robert Bdgaen.) the matter is that at the time Tunney George Cook, ing. —Advt mine by a score of i1 to 6. ver. Towle Mf Ts postion mith 1h "sterling ‘wo wourypert, Maes